To be honest, this kinda thing is always useful for injecting a renewed dose of FEAR into the masses.

24hr news media concentrates on terror, revisiting disasters, murder, robbery, snakes, Killer bees, SARS, fnord, Bird FLU, Aids, Super Aids etc because it will keep us all of scared enough to consume yet more SH*TTY 24 hr news programs.

I challenge anyone to watch Skynews, BBC 24 or CNN and for 2 hours and not see the paranoid fnord, fearfest spewing forth. Listen to the fnord language and you will see it. FNORD